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Creator:
Manwaring, Robert
Title(s):
The cabinet and chair-maker's real friend and companion, or, The whole system of chair making made plain and easy : containing upwards of one hundred new and useful designs for all sorts of chairs ... / the whole invented and drawn by Robert Manwaring : and ... engraved on forty copper plates by Robert Pranker.
Additional Title(s):

Cabinet and chair-maker's real friend and companion.

Whole system of chair making made plain and easy.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane, 1775.
Physical Description:
23 p., [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NK2260 M36 1775
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center copy contains, in manuscript: "Proposals agreed upon for completing the joiners work in the new house being built at Hullen Edge the property of J[oh]n. Armitage". Dated April 10, 1811. Signed Abraham Hanson. Contains ms. notations of prices of articles and sketches of work to be built.
Subject Terms:
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1775.
Furniture -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Furniture design -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
House furnishings -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
Taylor, I. -- Publisher.
Contributors:
Pranker, Robert, engraver.
Armitage, John.
Hanson, Abraham.
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